Hello, my name is Jessica and I’m hoping you can help me transform my life. In short - I need major open chest surgery called the Ravitch Procedure, which NHS England has currently decommissioned funding for. Frustratingly, if I was based in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland I could still access this surgery on the NHS with no problem. The situation is beyond baffling. A review of funding by NHS commissioners in the new financial year has been pushed back yet again, leaving me with no choice but to raise the £16,000 to fund the procedure privately myself.